Varieties of "disordered" thinking on the Rorschach: Findings in schizophrenic and nonschizophrenic patients.

Assessed 71 schizophrenic and nonschizophrenic hospitalized patients on 3 scales for aspects indicative of a thinking disorder on the Rorschach: disruption of logical thought, irrelevant or personalized associations, and elaboration in affective terms. Each scale could be reliably scored according to the criteria described. The scales correlated significantly with other Rorschach scores suggestive of thought disorder. All 3 scales were significantly higher in schizophrenic Ss than in depressed Ss (p